RE: hello from Sydney
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- Subject: RE: hello from Sydney
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- Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 10:05:59 -0500
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Welcome David!
Here's a solution to 20 inches of rain: pots! Of course, they drain readily,
so I'm sure pots of hay, grain, and other edibles were included on the ark
in order to feed the animals. Well...that's not Biblical, but they had to
feed the animals somehow, and they had a LOT more rain to deal with than 20
inches! ANYWAY:
Last fall I had pots of herbs on my deck which did very well, but it
was getting cooler, and the herbs didn't look very appetizing, so I
sprinkled carrot seeds among the basil and tarragon just to see what would
happen. WONDERFUL germination, but an winter came on early, so no harvest.
Right now, I've got turnips among some potted iris. Again excellent
germination. My goat gets the thinnings, and hopefully we will get some nice
fat turnips soon. If anyone has a good turnip recipe, I'd like to have a
copy.
Back to work.
Carol
Indianapolis
PS: I think I gave up too easily on the carrots and tarragon...I may have
been able to harvest carrots after snowfall, and the tarragon might have
wintered over if the roots were warm enough.
> >
> >Hi Veggie people, I've just joined this list. I'm in Sydney, in an inner
> >city suburb called Canterbury. Our summer is over, it was a disaster
> >growing wise, we had probably 20 inches of rain in the last 4-5 months so
>
> >everything turned into goo. Weirdly though, the pumpkins didn't get
> mildew
> >this year. The only success was with snake beans and chillis. Snake beans
>
> >are great, 4 plants kept our family of 5 supplied from December to April.
> i
> >didn't have to feed them or anything. I think they'd grow in warmer parts
>
> >of the US, i don't know about England though. The only chillis i grew
> were
> >cayenne this year, I still have a freezer full of last years jalapeno,
> >habanero, yugoslav, bullet, thai and serrano. Its hard getting
> interesting
> >seeds for chillies here, our quarantine laws prevent you from importing
> >anything. Anyway, hello again, looking forward to communicating with you
> >all.
> >
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